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This frame from an animation shows the merger of two white dwarfs. A white dwarf is an extremely dense remnant of a...
This artist's concept shows an exoplanet and debris disk orbiting a polluted white dwarf. White dwarfs are dim,...
For the first time, scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have witnessed a massive object with the makeup...
In this illustration, an asteroid (bottom left) breaks apart under the powerful gravity of LSPM J0207+3331, the...
This artist concept illustrates a comet being torn to shreds around a dead star, or white dwarf, called G29-38. NASA...
This plot of data from NASA Spitzer Space Telescopes shows that asteroid dust around a dead white dwarf star...
This chart shows data from NASA Kepler space telescope, which looks for planets by monitoring changes in the...
Peering deep inside a cluster of several hundred thousand stars, NASA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope set its infrared eyes upon the dusty remains of shredded asteroids around several dead...
This artist concept shows hundreds of brown dwarfs deep red, expected to be added to the population of known stars...
This artist concept is of Z Camelopardalis Z Cam, a stellar system featuring a collapsed, dead star, or white dwarf,...
This composite image NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows Z Camelopardalis, or Z Cam, a double-star system featuring...
This artist's concept shows a hypothetical "rejuvenated" planet -- a gas giant that has reclaimed its youthful...
In this image, taken January 13, 2015, NASA Dawn spacecraft captures the dwarf planet Ceres in both visible and...
This enhanced image from the far-ultraviolet detector on NASA Galaxy Evolution shows a ghostly shell of ionized gas...
This chart illustrates relative masses of super-dense cosmic objects, ranging from white dwarfs to supermassive...
This artist concept depicts an ultra-dense dead star, called a white dwarf, passing in front of a small red star....
This planetary nebula is called PK 329-02.2 and is located in the constellation of Norma in the southern sky. It is...
This frame from an animation shows a gigantic star exploding in a "core collapse" supernova. As atoms fuse inside...
This is an artist’s impression of a white dwarf (burned-out) star accreting rocky debris left behind by the star’s...
This side-by-side comparison shows observations of the Southern Ring Nebula in near-infrared light, at left, and...
This ultraviolet image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer is of the planetary nebula NGC 7293 also known as the...
This frame from an animation shows a color-coded map from NASA Dawn mission revealing the highs and lows of...
Several thousand years ago, a star some 160,000 light-years away from us exploded, scattering stellar shrapnel...